[AccessD] Outlook Replies strip off attachments

What is this winmail.dat file?

According to the site:

http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1552hq.html

WINMAIL.DAT is a proprietary Outlook file that allows Outlook users to send 
Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) information (see Microsoft's 
technical support article at 
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q241/5/38.ASP). This TNEF 
information is unopenable and irrelevant outside of Outlook.

On the KB article mentioned, it says that "A TNEF-encoded message contains a 
plain text version of the message, and a binary attachment that "packages" 
various other parts of the original message."

So, it sounds like the WINMAIL.DAT attachment is coming BECAUSE you are 
sending in plain text. Weird.

Gary Kjos




>From: "John W. Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
>Reply-To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] Outlook Replies strip off attachments
>Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:55:11 -0500
>
>Hmmm... but I send as plain text AFAIK.
>
>John W. Colby
>Colby Consulting
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
>Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:46 AM
>To: Access Developer
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Outlook Replies strip off attachments
>
>
>Hi John
>
>This from the horse's mouth could be for you:
>
>   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278061
>
>/gustav
>
> > I would be happy to help you but I am - by choice - totally Outlook
> > ignorant. I liked the old Internet Mail from Windows 3.11 but after
> > that ...
>
> > However, I can tell that these .dat files only have been attached your
> > e-mails recently (say a month or so). I think (anybody please correct
> > me) that these .dat files contain some information for a receiving
> > Outlook mailer and it is hidden by these - that's why you don't see
> > them yourself.
>
> > /gustav
>
> >> I just looked and have my email set to plain text.  As for "those 
>useless
> >> winmail.dat attachments", they must serve a purpose or they wouldn't be
> >> there.  However, if they truly are useless and you can tell me how to
>remove
> >> them (other than by switching mail clients) I will certainly do so.    
>I
> >> don't see them as attachments, and nobody has ever mentioned them 
>before.
>
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